The pager template provides a virtually infinite freedom when one needs to create a customized pager. The above example demonstrates that it is fairly easy to create a template that closely resembles the built-in pager.

In this demo, the custom navigation buttons use the built-in CSS classes and take advantage of the Pager API (see below) to navigate between the pages.

CommandName

CommandArgument

Page

First

Page

Prev

Page

Next

Page

Last

You could obtain information about the current page, item count, page count, etc. using the following properties: